Semantic domain name spinning

Abstract

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the spinning and appraisal of a domain name. A list of keywords may be extracted from a domain name entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a database and a result set may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display a certified domain name appraisal using a plurality of logical groupings within a domain name appraisal process. This appraisal process may also include a multiplier derived from comparisons of registration statistics for various top level domains.

1 . A method, comprising the steps of:
 a) receiving a domain name spinning input via a user interface on a client communicatively coupled to a network;   b) parsing the domain name spinning input into one or more keywords by a server communicatively coupled to the network;   c) building a keyword array based on a semantic search comprising one or more words similar to the one or more keywords;   d) comparing each of the one or more words in the keyword array to a plurality of potential matches in a data storage;   e) appending to a domain spinning result set one or more potential domain names based on matches to the one or more words found within the plurality of potential matches, exact matches being appended in a position of top priority;   f) assigning an appraisal value to each of the one or more potential domain names in the domain spinning result set; and   g) displaying each of the one or more potential domain names and the appraisal value for each potential domain name to a user on the user interface.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the domain name spinning input is received to seek more information about an auction or aftermarket for a domain name, an evaluation of the domain name, an availability of the domain name or any combination thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of building a list of one or more substrings contained in the domain name spinning input. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3  further comprising the step of running the list of one or more substrings through a dictionary to identify English words within the one or more substrings. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 3  further comprising the step of assigning a relevancy score to each substring within the list of one or more substrings. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5  further comprising the step of returning the result set based on the relevancy score assigned to each substring within the list of one or more substrings. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of checking the data storage for known acronyms or abbreviations for the one or more keywords passed in to the system as the keyword array. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7  further comprising the step of adding the acronyms or abbreviations found to the keyword array. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of checking a database of regional synonyms within the data storage for potential matches. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9  further comprising the step of adding one or more regional synonyms found in the database of regional synonyms to the keyword array. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of using one or more domain categories to pull more keywords from the data storage. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11  further comprising the step of matching the keyword array against one or more category keywords pulled from a static list of categories and keywords for each of the domain categories in the data storage. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12  further comprising the step of determining whether more than one category in the static list of categories and keywords is matched. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13  further comprising the step of, on finding that more than one category in the static list of categories and keywords is matched, ordering the domain categories found by relevancy. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising the step of returning a top domain category found by relevancy, as well as additional domain categories, if any. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 12  further comprising the step of adding the one or more category keywords to the keyword array. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of finding one or more synonyms from a thesaurus. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of returning the keyword list, acronyms and synonyms to be displayed to the user.